On transitions
Bob Hepburn makes clear that while the Libs may still be in denial about the importance of cooperating to remove the Harper Cons from power, their best friends in the…
August 2015
Determined, pragmatic ‘Anybody-But-Conservative’ movement may finally topple Harper from power this year…
I can hear it in the exasperated voices of friends and acquaintances as we discuss the ongoing federal election campaign in Canada. Regime fatigue has definitely set in this election…
Defamation
In Canada we have a constitutionally protection freedom to say whatever we want. The Constitution says “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms … (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and…
Donald Trump and friend
Chatting!
Inseparable friends
Donald Trump and owl.
The secret platform
It never figured to take long for the Cons to start making up numbers for lack of any legitimate criticism of the NDP’s platform – and Jason Kenney has charged…
Why Didn’t We Think of That?
He’s one of the frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination and he thinks America should consider building a wall along its border – with Canada. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker thinks…
Looking Back
Although it was made in 2013, the following 22 Minutes’ video has lost none of its relevance: Recommend this Post
Harper and Clark: Quit goading First Nations with premature LNG, Site C work
Unist’ot’en Camp leader Freda Huson speaks to RCMP on July 15 (Youtube video screen capture/Stimulator) You’d hope we’d come a long way since the crises of Gustafsen Lake and Oka…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dana Flavelle examines how many Canadians are facing serious economic insecurity. And Kevin Campbell discusses how the Cons are vulnerable on the…
Stuff Happens, week 33: Markets return to normal … whatever that is
The world’s stock markets did what they do this week — go up and down. And as always, investors and the media reacted as if this was something they had…
KCCCC Day 28: back in Canuckistan
Took 12 straight hours but I made it home with Sons 1, 2 and 3 last night. Drove through four states and two countries, made three pee stops, was greeted…
A Balanced Budget Isn’t A ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ Thing, Part II
Yesterday, I posted this article showing how NDP governments have been the most effective with respect to balancing budgets over the last 40 years, relying heavily on this article from…
What I Believe This Election Should Be About But So Far Isn’t
It has to be the strangest election campaign I have ever known. In the condo jungle where I live it's hard to know one is even underway. There are no…
Are 30% Of Us Fools?
http://www.quotesvalley.com/ Jeffrey Simpson writes that Stephen Harper’s core of support is six percent: After all, Conservative bedrock support is reckoned to be about 30 per cent, or maybe a trifle…
The Silence is Becoming Deafening.
A few weeks ago I reported that my local Conservative MP “will be declining to participate in any all-candidates meeting that follows the traditional format, one he says simply does…